Posted on 07/19/2008 11:11:15 AM PDT by tobyhill
The Afghan journalist who filmed and photographed the July 12 execution of two women by the Taliban says he was detained and held for two days by authorities in Afghanistan for suspected ties to terrorists.
The footage and photographs of the executions were distributed by the Associated Press and widely circulated on the Internet, giving rise to suspicions that the photographer, Rahmatullah Naikzad, was connected with the Taliban.
In an exclusive telephone interview, Naikzad told FOXNews.com that he turned himself in to Afghan authorities early this week and was held in custody and investigated for 48 hours. He said officials "asked me why I went to the Taliban at night how come they didn't harm me."
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He should suffer the same fate at those two women. As far as I am concerned, he and the rest of the ‘humans’ that pander this horror are nothing but ghouls and deserve to die, plain and simple.
This journalist terrorist story makes no sense. If the US and Afghanistan are going to keep letting these terrorist play games with them then we’re in for a longer ride.
It not only doesn’t make sense, it doesn’t conform to any acceptable form of decency. Journalism has become an ugly profession - you can be this ‘photo journalist’ had his tagline on the photos.......he was there for the scoop and I’ll wager he was so distraught at the killings he could hardly snap the shutter 50 or so times.
This is why the media in America is very afraid to see the government tapping phonecalls between the US and known terrorists overseas. The media has embedded reporters with the enemy. Time Magazine had one from Australia who was with the enemy Iraqi troops when Saddam was captured.
The media has chosen sides in this war and it is with the enemy. The media absolutely refuses to run any Pentagon press releases (remember the WaPoo reporter who huffed that she wasn’t going to run our propaganda) yet they routinely run forged fauxtography from Al Reutuers, AssPress, and others without question.
The keyword mediawar is key. Plenty of examples.
MSM...the friends of my enemy are my enemy too!
Besides the fact that the film catches the murder from different angles, and that there is a motorcycle in plain sight on the other side of the victims, motorcycles do not stay vertical when their kick stand is down, so the camera would either roll off or take a picture of the sand or stars.
I doubt he had a centerstand, which would be useless in that terrain anyway.
IMO, he IS Taliban, and he, along with the AP should be investigated/prosecuted under Afghan law.
They'd be wishing they were in Gitmo then.
I believe this same “reporter” has published pictures of our troops as well - which means he is gathering intelligence on movements and tactics - most likely passing them on to his taliban buddies.
Kill him.
Ship his butt to Gitmo.
Outstanding tagline!
About the youtube link to the execution video on the Fox link—youtube already pulled the video.
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